When not actively engaged in her pursuit of art, she is involved with her church and scouting groups, attends tumbling classes, and likes to spend time with her friends and cousins.

As time permits, she spends time enjoying the great outdoors, where she likes to fish (if the fish are biting) and to camp (if the weather is good).Leah's love of nature and the outdoors is expressed in her colorful paintings.

She has specific thoughts and creative ideas.Her determination and energy are expressed through her art.

Scroll down and view just a few of the many paintings she has created.

Leah displays one of her original painting designs

Leah carefully mixes paint to duplicate her teacher's painting. Even great masters learned from others, then went on to create their own masterpieces. Learning the correct techniques first allows for less frustration when creating original works of art.

Leah's beautiful works of art are an inspiration for others to explore their creativity

Carefully layering and applyingmixed paint while copying the paintinghelps the brain learn new skills likevalue, color variation, and theability to combine several colorsto easily create the perfect tone

From Leah:I've learned that mixing two opposite colors will make brown--but much prettier brown than from the tubes or bottles.Also,mixing all the colors on the palette will make a gray--but sometimes a very pretty gray.To mix browns, use blue and orangeorred and greenoryellow and violet

My tiny painting below started as an experiment and I layered and mixed several colors to get the background affect.I then added the dragonfly, but with brighter unmixed colors.

FeaturingLeah's Painting Techniques and Ideas

Dragonfly by Leah, 2" by 4" copyrighted by Leah's Art and Gallery, and Windale Studios